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. ''The Magic of Christmas'' features the same four performers from the group's previous studio album, ''

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. It is also the group's first original Christmas-themed studio album since 2012's '' Home for Christmas''.

Track listing

Personnel

Per the liner notes:
Featured performers *

– vocals *

–

fiddle A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical music. Although in many cases violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, th ...

– vocals Musicians * Gavin Murphy – piano,

celesta The celesta or celeste , also called a bell-piano, is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard. It looks similar to an upright piano (four- or five-octave), albeit with smaller keys and a much smaller cabinet, or a large wooden music box ( ...

* Kieran Leonard – drums,

bodhrán The bodhrán (, ; plural ''bodhráin'' or ''bodhráns'') is a frame drum used in Irish music ranging from in diameter, with most drums measuring . The sides of the drum are deep. A goatskin head is tacked to one side (synthetic heads or othe ...

, percussion * Darragh Murphy –

uilleann pipes The uilleann pipes ( or , ) are the characteristic national bagpipe of Ireland. Earlier known in English as "union pipes", their current name is a partial translation of the Irish language terms (literally, "pipes of the elbow"), from their ...

whistle A whistle is an instrument which produces sound from a stream of gas, most commonly air. It may be mouth-operated, or powered by air pressure, steam, or other means. Whistles vary in size from a small slide whistle or nose flute type to a larg ...

* Bill Shanley – guitar * John Hunt –

bagpipes Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, No ...

FILMharmonic Orchestra, Prague * Adam Klemens – conductor Kühn Mixed Choir * Lenka Navrátilová – choir arranger Production * Gavin Murphy – producer, arrangements, orchestrations *

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– vocal director * Michael Manning – recording engineer * Chris O'Brien – mixing engineer * Graham Murphy – mixing * Andrew Walter – mastering engineer * Vitel Kral – engineer * Michal Hradiský – assistant recording engineer

Charts

References

{{Celtic Woman 2019 Christmas albums Celtic Woman albums Manhattan Records albums